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The Sorcerer is a brilliant inventor who invents a robot apprentice to solve his clutter problem.
Generalize: Examine data on several inventors. What general statements can you make about
inventors. Read about an inventor of your choice and report as:
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- A Fact and Fiction Book
- A Bio Poem
- An Important Pattern
- Fortunately/Unfortunately Pattern.
- 2. From the classics to creative writing and thinking!
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Use: The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
TOPIC FOCUSING: Answer by guessing the correct number.
- A tornado is about _____yards across.
- Its winds blow at _____ miles per hour.
- The average tornado sweeps a path ____miles long at a speed of ____ to ___ miles per hour.
- How much time does it take to complete its
destruction in any one place?_____minutes.
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CREATIVE WRITING: Choose one:
A. The dusty gray funnel
B. The bending grass
C. The whirling house
Complete this pattern: The ___ was a _____ (doing what like a person), how or where?
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PROBLEM SOLVING
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Trees protect the forest by picking up intruders in their branches and tossing them back on the road. How can the travelers get past these trees?
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| Ideas |
Fast |
Safe |
Possible |
Will Work |
Total |
| _________ |
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| _________ |
______ |
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| _________ |
______ |
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1=no 2=maybe 3=yes
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3. Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Raintree, 1991.
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Captain Ahab seeks revenge on the great while whale that took his leg. Compile a data bank on whales. Use the information
in this pattern: You are changing, changing. You feel (describe the atmosphere) You are (two adjective You ( two verb phrases) You are (color) The color of ( name an object the same color) You are ( give size and shape) And are (participle & prep. phrase) You do not (what?) It is ( an adjective) to move like this. So (one adjective and one simile) You are (name)
4. Share: Tales from Shakespeare by Marcia Williams, Candlewick, 1998. -
Romeo and Juliet
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- Romeo and 13- year- old Juliet fall deeply in love at Lord Capulet’s party where Romeo is not
welcome. They beg Friar Lawrence to marry them. Evaluate: Reasons he should or should not marry them.
- After the wedding the couple must part and Romeo is involved in a sword fight. List 13 attributes of a master swordsman, use in a chant.
- Juliet takes a drug to avoid marrying Paris. Romeo believes she is dead and drinks poison.
Brainstorm all the ways Juliet might have convinced her father to let her marry Romeo
- Juliet awakens to find Romeo dead.
Fluent thinking: List many words for each letter of ROMEO that mean caring deeply for someone.
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5. HAMLET (from Williams Tales from Shakespeare)
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- Hamlet is visited by his father’s ghost who tells Hamlet that he had been murdered by his brother, Claudius. The ghost urges Hamlet to take revenge.
- Hamlet was outraged when his mother married Claudius, who then became king.
Activity: Complete the pattern by using one of these items.Injustice is like a ______
because________________
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a spinning wheel |
a new pencil |
an empty bowl |
an alarm clock |
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a rusty spigot |
a door hinge |
a tornado |
a bubble |
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a locked safe |
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Summarize the play using Karaoke
Tune: Herb Alpert’s "What Now My Love?"
HAMLET
This is the tale
Of tragic Hamlet
Who lived at
Castle Elsinore
A ghost told him
His father’s murder
Was done by one
Brother evermore
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5. The Mouse of Amherst by Elizabeth Spires, Farrar, 1999.
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Here is the life of Emily Dickinson as seen through the eyes of a small, would-be poet mouse who takes up residence in a corner of her bedroom.
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A. Underline new words words in a poem Look them up! Now does the poem make more sense? Use the underlined words in a paragraph to describe the life of the poet.
B. Using the poet’s tools: personification: Example from Dickenson
Frequently the woods are pink,
Frequently are brown.
Frequently the hills undress (personification)
Behind my native town.
Choose something familiar in nature. Follow the pattern of Dickenson’s poem to write about it.
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6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo.
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For a creative writing experience read on the internet the tale of Quasimido’s Bell Ringer and write a new ending.
http://www.awpi.com/Combs/Shaggy/120.html